Guess what city in our fine state is one of the best places in the country to be a real estate agent in?April 25, 2018

<i>Chronicle
Staff </i>

(NATIONAL) – Hey, want to find fame and fortune?
Forget about going to
school to learn how to code so you can work for Google. That whole
trip is so yesterday.

Get
your real estate license Bubba and go schlep some big big houses to
those techies with all that money to spend in what used to be called
the Jet City before Boeing took its home office and split. Why? Because
Seattle is super-hot, in the Top 5 of all cities in which to be a
real estate agent. (Portland, ORE almost cracked the Top Ten).

With
last year’s market for existing home sales being the strongest
since 2006, those personal-finance busy beavers over at WalletHub
released a report Tuesday on 2018’s
Best Places To Be A Real Estate Agent.

To
determine the best markets for real-estate agents, WalletHub
compared more than 170 U.S. cities across 18 key indicators of a
healthy housing market, ranging from sales per agent to annual median
wage for real-estate agents to housing-market health index to how
much wild
sex and
boozing
each agent was getting per week.

Just
kidding about the last one. Wanted to see if you were reading down
this far. So here ya go. Here’s the proverbial Top 20 cities
to
schlep real estate in:

Best
Places to Be a Real-Estate Agent

1

San
Francisco, CA

11

Irvine, CA

2

Seattle,
WA

12

Portland,
OR

3

San Jose, CA

13

Salem, OR

4

Fremont, CA

14

Charlotte, NC

5

Oakland, CA

15

Boston, MA

6

New York, NY

16

Los Angeles,
CA

7

Santa Rosa,
CA

17

Tempe, AZ

8

Denver, CO

18

Fargo, ND

9

Nashville, TN

19

Rancho
Cucamonga, CA

10

Vancouver, WA

20

Pearl City,
HI

Best
vs. Worst

Salem, Ore. has the most homes sold in the
past year per real-estate agent, 148.20, which is 21.6 times
more than in Houston, the city with the fewest at 6.86.

San Francisco has the
highest median house price, $858,800, which is 20.9 times
higher than in Detroit, the city with the lowest at $41,000.

Honolulu and Pearl City,
Hawaii have the highest annual median wage
for real-estate agents, $87,070, which is 3.6 times
higher than in Laredo, Texas, the city with the lowest
at $23,970.

San Francisco, San Jose, Calif.
and Seattle listings have the
fewest days on the market, 38, which is 4.3 times fewer
than listings in Miami, the city with the most at 165.

Memphis, Tenn. has the
highest share of home flips, 11.67 percent, which is 3.9
times higher than in Pittsburgh, the city with the lowest at 3.03
percent.